Has anyone ever seen the film BADLANDS starring Martin Sheen. I always catch parts of it on tv and I find myself watching this film ever time it comes on. I must have seen it 10 times over the years. Its a great film. It just works so well. Sheen goes on a murder spree in S. Dakota and Montana. Early Natural Born Killers I suppose. Flix just show it tonight. Badlands is tamer than Natural Born Killers, but more effective I believe. If you see it you'll know what I mean.

Wow, what's that doing on this board? I love "Badlands." The director, Terrence Mallick, is a philosophy professor who also directed "Days of Heaven" and "The Thin Red Line." Wonderful cinematography and brilliant editing. Still, I don't know if this is the forum for "highbrow" movies like that. As much as I love it, it's no "Frankenhooker....."

Let's pull this topic further away from bad movie discussion. Does anybody know where the phrase "How that be?" actually originates. I hear it in a lot of movies, and associate it with the deep south, but I don't know where it actually comes from.

Also, did anyone else notice the same music that runs through this movie runs through TRUE ROMANCE too?

Oh, Will, of course it is the proper forum! I mean, we discuss many good things here as well as bad. I've brought up Seventh Seal more than once -- perhaps one of the best films ever made.As far as Badlands go -- This was a thinly veiled retelling of the Charles Starkweather story. Sissy Spacek is properly etherial as the mindlessly romantic girlfriend. My wife's grand-uncle Earl was the police officer who finally caught Starkweather in Douglas, Wyoming. He was stopped for a traffic offense & put up no fight. They found out who he was back at the city jail -- a real Andy of Mayberry moment.

Yeah, I guess I'm still sensitive over an argument I got into about 2 years ago on this board about "Eyes Wide Shut"....I do tend to separate 'high cinematic art' from fun, DIY independent (and therefore noble) filmmaking.............though since I consider work like Soavi's "Cemetery Man" high art, my self-imposed separation is somewhat hypocritical.